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New and re-enrolling 4-H members, Cloverbuds and leaders, please remember the enrollment deadline for the 2016-17 4-H year is Jan. 1. Please stop by the Extension Office, behind the courthouse in Lewistown, or call 535-3919.

Is $25 a year for a boat sticker too much to pay if the money goes for weed control and fishing access site maintenance?

Alan Redfield, a Republican representative from House District 59, which covers Sweet Grass County and most of Park County, has proposed a bill to be presented in the upcoming Montana Legislature’s biennial session to find out.

The Heart of Montana Venture Network held its final meeting of 2016, on Wednesday Dec. 7. This meeting featured an entrepreneurial panel focused on business start-ups, both the risks and rewards, and plenty of advice.

Members of the panel included Sarah Kolar, owner and operator of Red Rover Pet Boarding; J.R. Lund, owner of Rockin’ L Genetics; and Tammy Eckhart, owner of Lewistown’s Sew Pieceful, whose gorgeous new business was also the setting for the meeting.

The Rocky Mountain Ranger District and Jefferson Division of the Helena–Lewis and Clark National Forest will be filling multiple temporary (seasonal) positions in trails and recreation for the upcoming 2017 field season. Openings will be available at the GS-3, 4, 5 and 6 levels depending upon the needs of each Hiring Manager. All jobs are for positions with a maximum six-month tour of duty. The starting dates of the positions are anticipated to be between April and early June 2017. Job Applications will be open in USAJobs between Jan. 4 and Jan. 10, 2017 only.

The following report is taken from information provided by the Lewistown Police Department and does not represent the total scope of police activity. All persons are innocent until proven guilty.

Dec. 2

• At 9:00 a.m. a person reported two cars on his property had been broken into at some point. The person came to the Lewistown Police Department to retrieve property that had been located through an arrest.

After all the slicing and dicing and studying of wildlife, along comes an animal or two that just won’t fit into a category, showing us we really don’t know it all.

In the last two years, a pair of cow moose radio collared on the Rocky Mountain Front as part of a 10-year population dynamics study has displayed a wanderlust that has confounded Nick DeCesare, research wildlife biologist with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.